My Bondage and My Freedom: resumen de Chapter 20

Qué sucede

1. Frederick returns to Baltimore after threats against his safety, while his former companions remain with their enslavers.
2. His childhood closeness with Thomas Auld, Junior, gives way to separation as their unequal positions become more pronounced.
3. At William Gardiner’s shipyard, racial hostility among white workers leads four apprentices to attack and seriously injure Frederick.
4. Hugh Auld seeks legal action, but Esquire Watson requires white witnesses, and none come forward.
5. Frederick recovers, learns caulking at Walter Price’s yard, earns skilled wages, and takes part in an intellectual society.
6. Hugh takes all Frederick’s earnings, strengthening Frederick’s dissatisfaction and his argument that slavery depends on suppressing thought.

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